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Re: Proposed IESG Statement Regarding RFC Errata for IETF Sream RFCs

2008-04-17 07:14:10
At 8:16 AM -0700 4/16/08, The IESG wrote:
   o  Approved - The errata is appropriate under the criteria below and
      should be available to implementors or people deploying the RFC.

   o  Archived - The errata is not a necessary update to the RFC.
      However, any future update of the document should consider this
      errata, and determine whether it is correct and merits including
      in the update.

Assuming that both categories will be in the errata repository, the 
difference between these two may be clear to the IESG, but it will 
not be clear to readers of the errata. I suspect that the two 
categories were created so that the IESG only needs to consider 
"errors that could cause implementation or deployment problems or 
significant confusion", not the minor stuff, but this differentiation 
will simply cause more arguments about what errors would cause 
problems of what magnitude.

In the end, it is probably better for readers of the errata to have 
just one category, and for the IESG to not waste its time 
differentiating between the two categories.

--Paul Hoffman, Director
--VPN Consortium
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